How to Assess Authentic Learning » (5th Edition)

Kay Burke has served as an award-winning classroom teacher and a school administrator, university instructor, and international professional developer. She works with Kay Burke & Associates, LLC, to provide workshops for teachers and administrators in standards-based learning, performance assessment, classroom management, mentoring, and portfolio development. For the past 18 years, Burke has presented at state and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NAESP, NASSP, NMSA, and IRA as well as international conferences in Canada and Australia. She is the author of 10 professional development books and coauthor of a college textbook on assessment. Corwin Press published Burke's best-selling From Standards to Rubrics in Six Steps: Tools for Assessing Student Learning, K-8 (2006), a 2007 finalist for the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing presented by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other books published by Corwin Press include How to Assess Authentic Learning, Fourth Edition (2005) and What to Do With the Kid Who: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom (Third Edition).

This fifth edition of the bestseller helps educators meet today's accountability requirements with a wide range of updated, easy-to-implement alternative assessments. The author demonstrates practical applications of assessment strategies and offers step-by-step guidelines for building observation checklists, developing unit plans using a multiple intelligences grid, designing performance tasks and rubrics, assessing student interviews and conferences, and much more.

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Student Learning Standards
2. Differentiated Learning
3. Student Portfolios
4. Performance Tasks and Rubrics
5. Checklists and Rubrics
6. Metacognition
7. Graphic Organizers
8. Teacher-Made Tests
9. Interviews and Conferences
Conclusion
Resources: Performance Task Units
Resource A: Dr. Geologist Needs Us: Third Grade Physical Science
Resource B: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees: Middle School Economics
Resource C: Extreme Makeover: Quadratic Equations and Factoring
Resource D: Are We a Match? Foreign Language Performance Task
Resource E: Thinking About Themes Through Texts and Tasks
References
Index